"Bruce L. Bergman (munged human readable)" wrote:

On Fri, 7 Oct 2011 20:36:21 -0700, "Steve B"
wrote:

I'm making a wort chiller. That's just a spiral of copper tubing to cool
boiling hot beer brew to put into the fermenter. I need to join the ends,
and in the configuration it's in, it would be easier to use a sweat fitting
than a compression. Is there any problem with that small amount of solder
regarding lead?

Yes, there would be a problem with food contact, since it's too easy
to over do it and have big drips and runs of solder on the inside you
can't see - but that's okay, when you go looking for plumbing solder
it's ALL going to be lead-free now by law, mostly Tin with a little
Silver alloyed in.

Even electronics is being forced to get rid of the lead. They're
going to get burned with $1 Billion satellites dying and falling from
the sky due to Tin Whiskers causing shorts on circuit boards, but the
few Rocket Scientists can't out-shout the many Enviro-Nuts.


Aerospace, military and medical applications are exempt from ROHS
lead free solder. They know that it's worthless ****, and that it will
kill people in mission critical applications. It was the idea of idiot
bureaucrats in Brussels with no science to back it up.

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